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''[[Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future]]'' is a 1986 [[Science Fiction]] novel by [[Mike Resnick]]. Exactly how far in the future we are never told but far enough that the galaxy is dominated by the Race of Man with two rowdy frontier regions; the Outer and the Inner. Our story takes place on the Inner (coreward) edge of Human expansion. Santiago is a myth, a legend, an outlaw king with twenty million credits on his head. Bounty hunter Sebastian Nightingale Cain, who dislikes his name, his profession and his life (not necessarily in that order) decides to go for the biggest bounty in known space. Along the way he meets many colorful people and the end isn't at all what he'd intended.
An important character, though he never makes a personal appearance, is
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Cain, definitely. A Type III or maybe even IV on the [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Sliding Scale]]
* [[Badass Preacher]]: Father William bounty hunts to support his work for the Lord.
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* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: Just ask the Great Sioux Nation. For that matter ask Sebastian Cain or Santiago.
* [[The Ingenue]]: Moonripple, who somehow manages to remain innocent and sweet dispite a lifetime as a barmaid in the stews of a hundred worlds.
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Virtue MacKenzie, a free lance [[Going for the Big Scoop]] and a candidate for justifiable
* [[Legacy Immortality]]: You'll find out who.
* [[Mathematician's Answer]]: The Angel is prone to these.
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* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Santiago himself and, thanks to Black Orpheus, quite a number of other characters.
* [[Space Western]]: Most of the planets are agrarian with shanty-style 'trade towns' and what with the bounty hunters, gamblers and whores the Inner Frontier looks a whole lot like the Old West.
* [[The Stoic]]: Cain but to an even greater extent the Angel who edges into psychopath territory but doesn't quite make it because
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Practically zero. Non-human species are treated like inconvenient vermin and Schussler the Cyborg is property.
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